Chad Yakobson wasn’t expecting this. Really. When he arrived at his brewery on bicycle at 10 a.m. Sunday, between 30 and 40 people were lined up outside waiting, some in lounge chairs. Yakobson went inside and got to work, preparing with his small staff at Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project for what they thought was just another bottle release.

The owners of Boulder’s Sterling University Peaks apartments, who this summer were cited for illegally subdividing 92 bedrooms in the complex, have reached an agreement to settle the case for $410,000, the city announced Thursday.